Clinical presentations of type II diabetes

Background: type 2 diabetes mellitus is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide and is even a bigger threat to the developing countries. early recognition and treatment initiation is the key to successful future course of the disease. methods and results: 1012 newly diagnosed diabetics were selected who presented to the diabetic outpatient department of ghurki trust teaching hospital from january 2013 to december 2016. out of them 469 were males and rest were females. their age was between 26-78 years. history was taken and the cause of getting their blood sugar checked was determined. major presenting complaints were polyuria and / or nocturia in 303(29.9%) patients,leg pains or fatigue was present in 198(19.56%),eye problems and numbness and paresthesia were present in 193(19.05%) and 138(13.6%) patients respectively. other presenting complaints were polyphagia 19(1.8%),weight loss 62(6.5%) and miscellaneous 99(9.7%). out of miscellaneous only 10 were incidentally discovered as diabetics. conclusions: patients likely to develop diabetes (family history,obesity etc) should have their blood sugar levels checked regularly for early diagnosis of diabetes. the typical symptoms of diabetes likely polyuria,polydipsia or polyphagia were present only in one third of patients.